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by fbonetti 8y ago
> Basic electronics knowledge and soldering skill could help anyone at home. Just like being able to do light plumbing and electrical work comes in handy and will save you lots of money. I'm skeptical of this. When a sink is clogged
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This will happen eventually, but it takes a massive amount of resources to build a university from scratch, and existing universities risk diluting their brand if they take on too many students.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
That demand was artificially created by the government disallowing the discharge of student loan debt through bankruptcy.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
It drives me crazy that people don’t see the very simple reason why tuition has risen so much: student loan debt is not dischargable through bankruptcy. Even if the student is run over with a bus the debt can be passed on to family members.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Electricity, water, cable, and phone are all "natural" monopolies because of the significant amount of infrastructure they require. Having private companies lay their own competing water mains would be an absolute clusterfuck. Fac
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The problem isn't so much that unions are incentivized to bargain for as much as possible. Every one who participates in the economy is trying to get the best deal for themselves. The problem is that politicians aren't restrained
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by fbonetti 8y ago
> Scandinavia says hi. Idk, maybe I'm spending too much on the internet but it seems like the discussion around inequality has shifted from "let's increase the welfare state" to "let's dismantle capitalism a
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by fbonetti 8y ago
> Even in tech there has been wage/benefit reducing collusion/monopoly behavior. > Why are people so anti-union? You realize that unions are cartels/monopolies on labor, right? You already recognize that monopolies dist
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by fbonetti 8y ago
This doesn't tell the whole story. In states like Illinois, the pension assumptions were unrealistic to begin with. From what I've read, they assumed 7% annual growth and included 3% annual increases to account for inflation. Even
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate that the word "socialism" has completely lost it's meaning in the US. I don't think Americans truly comprehend how radical Socialism actually is. To compare increasing the minimum wage with So
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I agree. It's definitely not perfect, and I do view the rising inequality and stagnant wages as a serious issue. I just find it alarming that when people criticize capitalism, they usually advocate for some variety of full blown social
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> His idea of human beings as rational, self-interested economic actors that is a ludicrously narrow model of the human being Sure, but in order to understand human behavior on the scale of millions of people making billions of transacti
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Cutting existing benefits is the only way to avoid bankruptcy in many states and cities. The long term solution is to switch to a defined contribution plan instead of defined benefits. The reason why many on the right are wary of government
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> It's already been established that pensions can be cut in bankruptcy, so, yeah, that's not even a question. Minor nitpick, but it’s in Illinois’ state constitution that pensions cannot be reduced. Republicans want to change t
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by fbonetti 8y ago
> lack of robust fiscal stimulus Have you been living under a rock? We've been in continuous quantitative easing for over a decade. The Fed is just now started to raise rates.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Centralized intermediaries are only trustworthy as long as they’re incentivized to be truthful. If another party comes along and offers them a bag of cash, the intermediary might choose to betray its clients’ trust. Decentralized miners, on
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Normally I find it harmless when people on HN try to reduce non-tech problems into programming terms, but seriously, what value does this comment add?
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This isn’t a magic bullet. When you eat carbs, your body produces the hormone insulin in order to convert blood glucose into usable energy. Excessive insulin production triggers the body to store energy as fat. If you drastically reduce you
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by fbonetti 8y ago
This is a really interesting take, and I think explains why so many young Americans feel disillusioned. It's not the inequality that bothers them per se, it's the fact that they can't afford to buy homes and that their educat
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by fbonetti 8y ago
I think engineers would still jump ship just as often even if they were paid more. When you really get down to it, most programming is pretty tedious. What makes it fun, for some engineers, is the opportunity to learn new things, even it me
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by fbonetti 8y ago
The term you’re looking for is “type inference”, where the compiler determines the type of a variable automatically at compile time.
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The point is that your mindset going in to the trip needs to be pristine. If you're in a bad place, stressed out, or worried about anything, you WILL think about it during your trip, which can take you to a really dark place. It's
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Depends on where you are in life. Do you have a full-time job? Do you have any serious adult responsibilities, like a mortgage, business, spouse, or child? Do you tend to dwell on negative things? Are you worried about anything going on in
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Elm is extremely opinionated and bottlenecked by one person. It’s great for the specific usecases it was designed for, but it gets tedious once you start interacting with external code and the outside world. The development cycle is slow an
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by fbonetti 8y ago
I like Typescript a lot, especially compared to plain JS. AWS lambda, on the other hand, requires very special use cases in order to justify the complexity and learning curve, IMO. It’s not great as a general programming environment.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
I’m jealous. I left Rails behind a couple years ago because I wanted to learn new things and not get stuck on a single stack. I’m currently working with Typescript/Node on a serverless framework on AWS. It’s got all the buzzwords but d
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by fbonetti 8y ago
Agreed. Serverless is not free, or even cheap for that matter. It’s an entirely new skillset that comes with a million new things to learn and worry about. No thanks.
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by fbonetti 8y ago
I think we’re saying the same thing. Your original comment made it sound like high real estate prices is just a fact of life.
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This is the correct answer.

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